InformIT SQL Server Newsletter - Oct 5, 2004

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Title: InformIT SQL Server Newsletter - Oct 5, 2004

InformIT SQL Server Newsletter Oct 5, 2004 Win an iPod mini! Solve the Find the Bug Challenge! and you could win an iPod mini and a copy of Adam Barr's brand-new book, Find the Bug: A Book of Incorrect Programs. It's all part of Bookpool's 10th Anniversary Celebration going on now at www.bookpool.com. While there, check out this month's special sales on Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall PTR, and Cisco Press titles. Visit Our Sponsor SQL Server Reference Guide Your Host Buck Woody Once again, several InformIT guides have created parallel articles. This time, several of us are covering graphics, and you'll find a wealth of knowledge about working with graphics, from development efforts all the way to applications that use those graphics. In today's article I'll explain the two primary methods to store or reference graphics in SQL Server. While you're here, you should really check out Baya Pavliashvili's article on Analysis Services cubes. In it you'll find an overview, use, and even examples of cubes using Microsoft SQL Server. Good stuff! Visit The SQL Server Reference Guide New Content   Articles and Sample Chapters All Articles and Sample Chapters Working with Analysis Services Cubes in SQL Server By Baya Pavliashvili   Weblogs All SQL Server Weblogs SQL Server and BI By Buck Woody Nothing to do with SQL By Buck Woody HP fury By Buck Woody  Subscribe to the SQL Server Reference Guide RSS feed. New Books and Safari Online Books   Book Store All SQL Server Books Microsoft SQL Server High Availability By Paul Bertucci Published by Sams � Nov 3, 2004 Premium Member Price: $29.99 USD (Save 25%) Guru™s Guide to SQL Server Boxed Set, The By Ken Henderson Published by Addison Wesley Professional � Oct 15, 2004 Premium Member Price: $104.99 USD (Save 25%)   Safari Online Books All SQL Server Online Books Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals, The Published by Addison Wesley Professional � Oct 22, 2003			Spotlight: New Book SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services streamlines the process of extricating meaningful reports from your data sources. Hitchhiker's Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services picks up where the Microsoft documentation leaves off, providing report developers, database administrators, application developers, their managers, and report users with invaluable inside information on the workings of Reporting Services. (I'm not sure if it actually includes a towel, however.) Weblog of the Week: What Would You Do? During a local conference, our security guide reports, a consultant raised an interesting question. What would you do if one of your clients had suspicious porn on their computer? Would you report it, or keep your mouth shut? C++ Without Fear: A Beginner�s Guide That Makes You Feel Smart! If you've always wanted to learn how to program a computer, or to learn the popular C++ programming language, here's the perfect book and CD to get you started. You'll find everything you need patiently explained and clearly illustrated, from general programming concepts and techniques to the particulars of the C++ language. In no time, you'll be writing your own programs! Grab Our SQL Server RSS Feed You can get our SQL Server Reference Guide additions and weblog entries in your RSS Aggregator — click here to grab the code! Become a Member and Save up to 25% in Our Book Store! Profile yourself with InformIT and you'll receive an additional discount — up to 25% off many titles in the InformIT Book Store. The best part is that this offer will never expire! Safari Clip of the Week Preview an excerpt from Safari, our online subscription service, with a new clip each week! This week: Integrating XQuery and SQL: Querying XML Datatypes, from XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language.

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